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Curious - what made you decide MongoDB over PG/MySQL in the first place? Was it merely gut (as indicated below) or was it more of a "people say this is good, it
by mbesto 13y ago
Curious - what made you decide MongoDB over PG/MySQL in the first place? Was it merely gut (as indicated below) or was it more of a "people say this is good, it fits our use case, so let's try it out"
> We switched from PostgreSQL to MySQL and couldn't be happier. I think the lesson for us was: go with what you know and master, and with what's easy to fix, rather than what people on hackernews tell you to use.
Thank you for this :)
- cmer 13y agoWe had a giant table that constantly needed schema changes. With older versions of MySQL, adding a column meant many hours of downtime. And our business required 100% uptime. It wasn't a good fit. The promise of no schema sounded awesome. MySQL 5.6 no longer has this limitation. Actually, pretty much everything we didn't like about MySQL has been fixed in 5.6. We kind of decided to give it another chance and we've been happy.